• Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems
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    10 hours ago

    My younger son likes to imitate voices, and at one point when he was about seven I had to explain which accents it was currently safe to imitate publicly and which not. It took about ten minutes, and I still hadn’t covered all the cases.

  • TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems
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    18 hours ago

    As someone who also went to university in the late 80s and early 90s, I didn’t share his experiences. This reads like one of those silly shaggy-dog stories where everyone says sarcastically afterwards: “yeah that happened”.

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    20 hours ago

    Why is it that the californian tech bros have all embraced conservative talking points so quickly? Weren’t they supposed to be “shitlibs”?

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      20 hours ago

      Welcome to the dropping the crypto, going openly neoreactionary (*) californian tech bro era.

      (*: I don’t know if they are neoreactionary, but that is the dumbest ideology I could easily link them too)

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    1 day ago

    Come now, he was always about consing chodes into lists… Given his excessive self-seriousness, I doubt he’s taken the time to pick up the skill of juggling them in the years since

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      22 hours ago

      normally I’d say that’s true but he wanted to impart the juggling in particular to his progeny